Knitted article of apparel.



L. M. B. ROBINSON. KNITTED ARTICLE OF APPAREL. APPLICATION FILED 050.10.- 19m.

1 1 5 1 1 26. Patented Aug. 24, 1915.

mummu \mqnnu LYDIA M. B. ROBINSON, OF PAOLI, PENNSYLVANIA.

KNITTED ARTICLE OF APPAREL.

Application filed December 10, 1914.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LYDIA M. B. ROBIN- SON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Paoli, in the county of Chester and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Knitted Article of Apparel, of which the following is a speciiication.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide an article of apparel which by reason of its shape, structure and fittings is capable of use as a mufller, sleeping cap, body belt, waistcoat, foot muff, sling and the like, and is therefore especially well adapted for use by soldiers engaged in campaigning an similar pursuits.

The invention will be claimed at the end hereof, but will be first described in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1, is an elevational view of an article of apparel embodying features of the invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are similar views illustrating some of the ways in which the article shown in Fig. 1 may be used, and Fi s. 4-7 are views illustrating several uses of the article illustrated in Fig. 1.

In the drawings 1 is a body portion of uniform width and of fabric ribbed on each side.

2. is an end portion knitted continuously with the body portion 1 and consisting of plain fabric. The end 2 is provided with a crosswise slit 3 and is narrowed as at 4. The edge of the slit may be advantageously bound and then button-holed.

is an end portion knitted continuously with the rest of the article and it consists of fabric plain on one side and ribbed on the other and narrowed as at 6 and having cross-bars as 7 of plain knitting.

There is a row of press-button elements along one edge of the body. the bottom edge of Fig. 1., and of these those marked 10 are socket elements and those marked 11 are stud elements. Along the edge of the end portion 2 there are press-button elements of which those marked 12 are studs and that marked 13 is a socket. Centrally arranged along the end 5 there is a row of press-button elements 9 and they are all stud elements. Centrally of the edge of the body portion is a socket element 8. So far as the press-button elements have been described, they are all upon one face of the fabric. ()n

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 24, 1915.

Serial No. 876,440.

the other face of the fabric and centrally of the body portion 1, near one end thereof, there is a row of press-button socket elements 14 and similarly across the end portion 5 there is a row of press-button elements of which those marked 15 are socket elements and the one marked 16 is a stud element. The various elements of the press buttons are sewn to the knitted fabric on the face where they appear and back of them on the other face of the fabric there is a reinforcement 17 to which the elements are sewn.

It is evident that the described article of apparel can be folded in a variety of ways and when folded secured in position by the described press-buttons or some of them. To illustrate this, reference may be made to Fig. 2, in which the article is turned up on itself in respect to Fig. l, and in this figure the press-button elements 10 and 11 may be connected together as also may be the pressbutton elements 15 and 12, 13 and 16. The end part 5 is passed through the slit 3 and the press-button elements 14 are in engagement with the press-button elements 9.

The arrangement shown in Fig. 3, is much the same, except that the end 5 is loose. The other figures of the drawing, together with the foregoing description, will sufficiently illustrate some of the uses to which the described article can be put.

The described character of the various parts of the knitted fabric is useful. in that it opposes rolling certain parts, more particularly the body portion, while affording the proper amount of rolling but not too much rolling or curling at the edges of the end part hat I claim is:

A knitted article of apparel comprising the combination of. a body portion of uniform width of fabric ribbed on each side and one continuous end portion of plain fabric provided with a crosswise slit and narrowed and another continuous end portion of fabric plain on one side and ribbed on the other and narrowed and having cross-bars of plain knitting, with press button elements, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name.

LYDIA M. B. ROBINSON.

Witnesses C. C. FnnNoH, FRANK E. FRENCH.

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